Rebirth: He Decides to Lie Flat-Chapter 97 - 094 Meeting Behind the Iron Window (Second
Chapter 97 -094: Meeting Behind the Iron Window (Second Update)
Chapter 97 -094: Meeting Behind the Iron Window (Second Update)
Jiang Yan, wearing shorts and a tank top, yawned as he came to open the door.
Leaning against the door frame with a smile that was not quite a smile, he said, “Uncle, Uncle Jiang, this early?”
Uncle Jiang looked at the smile on Jiang Yan’s face and felt something was off. He forced a smile and said, “We didn’t see you yesterday, so your uncle and I were worried about you. We caught a ride with a delivery truck from the town at five this morning.”
Seeing Jiang Yan blocking the doorway, showing neither enthusiasm nor inviting them in, Uncle Jiang’s heart sank with displeasure.
They had come all the way early in the morning, and here was this junior, acting all high and mighty?
Jiang Yan saw his uncle’s face darken and let out a cold laugh inwardly. He stepped aside to let them in and poured two glasses of water onto the coffee table.
Then he yawned, half-closed his eyes, and slumped onto the single sofa on the side with a complete lack of image.
“Well, Little Yan, today is the day to visit your dad, you know that, right?”
When Jiang Yan didn’t say a word for a long time, Uncle Jiang couldn’t hold back and said with a smile, “You see, you’ve attended such a good university, and you don’t even come home to share the good news. Don’t you know that your grandparents are very worried?”
“Worried? Worried about what?”
Uncle Jiang was taken aback by Jiang Yan’s question.
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“What’s with that tone? It’s normal for your grandparents to be worried about you when you haven’t been home for months, isn’t it?”
Jiang Yan looked at Uncle Jiang and said with a smile, “So, you all knew I haven’t been back for months.”
No one came looking for me in the months I was gone, and now they did?
Thinking about his previous plans, Uncle Jiang looked sheepish but didn’t think they had done anything wrong. He had some understanding of the law and knew that if Jiang Yan’s dad wasn’t around, his mom would be his primary caretaker.
So it was only right that she took him in.
“Little Yan, don’t be upset with your grandparents. They are at such an age with no source of income. Your dad should have been the one supporting them…”
Jiang Yan found it quite boring, the same old story again and again, wasn’t it tiresome?
Not wanting to deal with the two anymore, he cut to the chase, “So, it’s about visiting my dad, right? Fine, I’ll go with you.”
Having said that, he got up and went back to his room to change clothes.
Huang Mao was woken up by the noise and sat up groggily, asking, “Bro, where are you going?”
“Going out for a bit. You take it easy today, I need the car.”
“Oh.”
When Jiang Yan came out of the bedroom, Uncle Jiang stood up and asked, “Who were you talking to just now?”
“No one.”
Uncle Jiang didn’t dare to press further when he saw Jiang Yan was unwilling to talk. He could feel that the kid was clearly different from before.
When he was kicked out of school and had just returned to his hometown last year, he might have looked like a troublemaker, but he wouldn’t dare to speak so loudly to his elders back then. Now… after getting into Beijing University, everything had changed.
“Let’s go.”
Jiang Yan led the two downstairs and walked straight to the van and opened the door for them.
He had taken advantage of some free time to get his driving license, and he had just received it last week.
“Is this… your car?”
The Jiang brothers eyed the old, mud-spattered van with reluctance.
“Did your mom give you the money for this? Why didn’t you…”
“This is my friend’s car.”
Uncle Jiang abruptly stopped and closed his mouth, which he had opened to speak.
Jiang Yan glanced at the two of them and said coldly, “If you don’t want to get in, that’s fine. There’s a bus stop out the alley when you turn left at the door. I’ll go ahead and drive over…”
“We’re getting in; we didn’t say we didn’t want to.”
Uncle Jiang cut off Jiang Yan’s words and pulled Uncle Jiang along, giving him a “are you stupid” look. To take public transportation would require transferring buses twice—wasn’t that spending their own money?
The two of them got into the car, and Jiang Yan drove out of the community, passing by row upon row of baozi shops and breakfast stalls, showing no intention of stopping for breakfast.
Thinking that one can’t catch a wolf without risking a sheep, Uncle Jiang figured it wouldn’t hurt to spend a little money to treat the young man to breakfast, so he said, “Little Yan, the trip to your dad’s place is pretty long, and I see you haven’t eaten yet. How about we stop along the way to grab something to eat before we continue?
“No need, I’m not hungry.”
But we are hungry!
Yet Jiang Yan seemed as if he hadn’t caught the meaning behind his uncle’s words, speeding all the way, arriving at the gate of a prison in the suburbs in less than an hour.
Uncle Jiang, well-versed with the procedure, went to fill out the forms, and within ten minutes, he and Jiang Yan were inside.
Only two visitors were allowed at a time, so Uncle Jiang stayed outside.
Seeing Jiang Fengwei after what felt like lifetimes, Jiang Yan felt somewhat bewildered.
In his previous life, he had not lived to see his father get out, but over those years, to make his time inside slightly more bearable, he had constantly sent him cigarettes and goods, things he had never indulged in for himself.
Most of the items were sent to Uncle Jiang, with the request to help deliver them.
After all, he was working out of town, and the round-trip fare was substantial—he couldn’t bear to spend that money.
Looking back now…
Never mind, what use is it to think about these things now?
“Big brother, I have some good news. Little Yan got into Beijing University with 702 points. Impressive, right?”
Jiang Fengwei, having not seen his son for a long time, was about to ask about how he was doing with his mother and his stepfather, but before he could even begin, his younger brother dropped this thunderous news.
Got into Beijing University? 702 points?
Jiang Fengwei looked at Jiang Yan in disbelief and after a long moment, his voice trembling, he asked, “Little, Little Yan, is that true?”
Jiang Yan, who had been silent since sitting down, looked at his father’s face, which hadn’t changed much compared to ten years later in his previous life, and smiled sardonically. “It’s true.”
With food and drink, aside from the lack of freedom, life in there isn’t so bad.
Thinking that for the next ten or twenty years he wouldn’t have to carry the burden of elder care, Jiang Yan’s view of Jiang Fengwei became a bit more favorable.
“Big brother, mom and dad were very happy when they heard, and they want to hold a celebration for Little Yan’s academic achievement back at our hometown, and also take him to kowtow at the ancestral grave. Getting into Beijing University is truly a blessing from our ancestors; the location of our family grave is excellent. Look at you and your son, back when you got into university…”
He didn’t finish his last sentence when Jiang Yan chuckled and, looking at his uncle, tapped the iron bars in front of him and asked, “Uncle, what are you trying to say? That when my dad got into university it brought glory to the family? And what about now?”
Uncle Jiang’s smile froze on his face, and even Jiang Fengwei silently hung his head.
Time was limited, and Jiang Yan didn’t want to hear any more pointless talk. After all, he had no intention of coming again, so it was better to speak his mind clearly once and for all.
“Forget about the celebration banquet. My grandparents know full well whether they truly care about me, as do you, Uncle. Only you, Dad, have no idea.”
Jiang Fengwei suddenly raised his head to look at Jiang Yan, his face a mix of bewilderment and a hint of anger. “Jiang Yan, what do you mean?”
“What do I mean? Dad, I won’t bring up the past, but let’s start from the first day I returned home after your incident. I hadn’t even eaten when my grandmother began scolding me, pointing at my nose, and then she threw me out of the house, telling me to go ask my mom for money. She said she didn’t have spare money for my tuition fees, let alone to raise me.
“She said she had no money to raise me. Dad, do you even remember how much money you’ve given grandmother over the years?”
